I had this working over mplayer but I might have been using force-windowed in /etc/directfbrc. It is also very possible to modify mplayer and df_xine to display onto an existing window's surface, still using the BES. This way Freevo could startup and maintain several windows - for main screen, OSD, picture in picture, video previews, and full video.
That remonds me of a design problem. Based on the display we should do some special stuff in the mplayer or xine plugins. Right now, the user has to set everything. Three possible solutions:
1. mplayer/xine knows about every display. Disadvantage: every time we add a display, we need to expand mplayer/xine
2. The display knows about special mplayer/xine settings. Disadvantage: when we add a new player, we need to change all displays
I would see option 1 to be a lesser evil than option 2. It is true that both are not optimal and kinda undermines the abstraction mevas gives us.
3. We add a dummy variable display to freevo.conf and do some special
settings in freevo_conf.py. Disadvantage: we need to change this
every time we add something new.
I think that the 'diaplay' variable in freevo.conf should be used to set GUI_DIAPLAY automaticly (If it doesn't already). Based on that we can set an intelligent default for MAPLAYER_VO_DEV or the xine -V flag, both of which could be overriden in local_conf.py.
Ideas?
What about adding a module to src/config/ so we can config.detect('display'). Much of this work can be done there, setting intelligent defaults and perhaps even setting some argument variables that the mplayer or xine tv/video plugins can use as-is with no redundant checks required. If there's any special magic or workaround that needs to be done for certain displays then it could be done in the src/config/display.py file. Just a thought...
Dischi, on a related note, I was wondering if you could add a get_
method to the src/gui/displays/ code that returns a list of (or
active) canvas.
Like gui.display.display_stack?
Heh, yes, just like that and get_display(). :) Ok, I'll go try something with that.
-Rob
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